Young widow Lucy Muir moves into a cottage overlooking the English coast. She soon learns that it is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a salty sea captain. But the captain's efforts to scare off his new tenant soon develops into a most unlikely love affair--when Lucy runs out of money, the captain 'ghost writes' a book for her about his life. Their publishing success, however, brings her the amorous attentions of a man who is very much alive,...

The basis for Joseph L. Mankiewicz's cinematic romance starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison… Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg....